I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 128

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There was nothing to gain from revealing that fact anyway.

Rather, it would only earn more curses and incur the Marquis’s wrath.

The Marquis was insisting that she say until the end that she had no relationship with Judith, and was urging her to leave the estate.

“Now, let’s go out.”

The Information Guild member tactfully dragged Elizabeth out. After stumbling down the stairs, he opened the door at the guild entrance and sent her out.

“It was a good transaction.”

Bang, the door closed.

Elizabeth collapsed helplessly on the roadside with a thud. Her vision went dark and for a moment she couldn’t see anything.

Only after a while did she realize that people who had come to watch were bustling about in front of her.

The onlookers who had guessed she would come out through the main gate of the 【Grey Information Guild】 had moved to the roadside.

“Oh my, oh my. What’s going on.”

“That’s the woman, right? Her voice was exactly like that!”

Elizabeth hastily got up.

No matter what, she wasn’t someone who should become a laughingstock in a place like this.

She had a child who was the apple of her eye, a husband she had loved for a long time, and a small goods shop that could still provide a living.

She would have to give up her greed to return to nobility, but still, she wasn’t alone. After all, hadn’t Ron also failed and returned?

Just as she was about to curse and leave this estate to go home.

“Hey, stop there.”

“Wait.”

Two men of enormous build blocked Elizabeth’s path. Only then did Elizabeth realize what she had forgotten in her panic.

“Our newcomer made some mistakes. We’d like you to return the 70 million gold right away.”

“We don’t lend such large sums to women like you who have nothing. We came to collect, but you haven’t spent it already, have you?”

Ron’s jaw dropped.

After arriving in Aarten, he had been dragged around continuously by a mysterious man while holding Petro.

He had heard everything Elizabeth said in the square, and was dragged in a daze to the main gate of the 【Grey Information Guild】.

He thought to himself, ‘I’m screwed.’

Elizabeth was finished. Her plan had been completely seen through by the Marquis and now there was no room to dig in.

But the problem was when they arrived in front of the 【Grey Information Guild】. Two moneylenders with menacing faces approached Elizabeth who had just come out.

‘Then… surely that woman who incurred that hopeless debt!’

His breath caught. 70 million gold!

It was money that would take until old age to repay even if he ground up not only his life but Elizabeth’s entire life as well.

That the person who owed that enormous debt to those vicious-looking moneylenders was his wife!

‘No, that’s not right.’

Ron blinked and thought.

‘Officially… she’s not my wife.’

Originally, people near the capital kept their documents well, but commoners living in provinces or rural villages lived roughly without even registering their marriages.

Ron and Elizabeth, naturally like most provincial commoners, had not registered their marriage either.

They just lived telling people around them that she was ‘Elizabeth Dail’, but her official document name as a former capital noble still remained Elizabeth Ailan.

Even if she were his wife anyway…

Moneylenders are satisfied with catching just one person and don’t look for escaped family members. That’s how Ron and Elizabeth had been able to survive by handing over Judith as a hostage.

“Waaahhhhh!”

Then, Petro, who spotted his mother, struggled and cried.

Elizabeth looked at them with surprised eyes.

“Petro!”

Her look said, why on earth are you here?

Ron quickly covered Petro’s mouth and immediately turned around to run away.

‘Right, your mother wouldn’t want you to grow up as a debtor’s son either.’

While running away frantically, he rationalized it that way.

‘It’s not because I’m scared to pay the debt together, this is all for Petro!’

He ran away hurriedly and caught any cargo wagon leaving the estate.

Since there was no need to go to Garseia anymore, he planned to flee to a place where Elizabeth or the moneylenders couldn’t find him.

She really was a detestable woman until the very end.

Ekian remained in the 【Grey Information Guild】 building, looking down out the window with a troubled expression.

It was also his instruction to bring Ron and his son to Aarten.

Setting the ambiguous amount of 70 million gold was also his doing. Originally, the amount that seventeen-year-old Judith had to repay was similar.

It was money that the two could pay off completely by old age if they worked hard together. If Ron truly loved Elizabeth, he naturally wouldn’t have run away.

However, Ron ran away right before Elizabeth’s eyes.

That was bound to make Elizabeth suffer more.

‘What an ugly couple to the very end.’

Now Elizabeth would quietly leave the estate. Then the moneylenders would probably drag her away.

But then it happened. Ekian’s eyes widened as he quietly looked out the window.

Because someone he hadn’t expected, the woman he missed every single day without fail, the very person he couldn’t bear to hurt even slightly…

Was standing right in front of the Grey Information Guild.

“Oh my, really… she even incurred debt?”

“She must have incurred debt trying to meet the Crown Prince.”

People were gathered in front of the 【Grey Information Guild】, murmuring.

Among them was a young woman standing blankly, wearing a maid’s cap pulled down tight and dressed in maid’s clothing.

It was Judith.

‘What’s the name of that information guild by any chance?’

‘It’s the Grey Information Guild!’

From the moment Anne spoke cheerfully, Judith thought she had to leave the Marquis’ estate.

She needed to know what was happening outside too.

If Elizabeth was threatening the Marquis to give her money, she planned to nullify everything and leave.

She didn’t want to become a burden to anyone. Especially not to Ekian.

If she didn’t have anything, Elizabeth would leave her alone.

Just like when she was seventeen. So she planned to leave with nothing and quietly raise her child.

‘Anne, this is it. I need to go out. Can you help me?’

‘Of course.’

Because she had been very well-behaved all this time, there was no surveillance attached to her at the Marquis’ estate.

It didn’t seem like Ekian had actually assigned surveillance to her before leaving. He had just firmly forbidden going out.

Of course, since she had never once said she wanted to go out until now, the vigilance of the Marquis’ estate people was very relaxed.

Moreover, people were mixed up at the Marquis’ estate right now.

It seemed the people who originally worked here and the people the Marquis brought from the capital weren’t familiar with each other yet.

‘I need to go see what’s happening.’

‘Yes. I’ll help you!’

Her loyal disciple, Anne, immediately pulled out a wig from her bag.

Adding a maid’s cap she had sneakily taken from the laundry basket before, she even wore glasses she hadn’t used since coming to the Marquis’ estate. She also tied an apron over a plain dress.

After sticking on lots of freckle stickers that were supposedly trendy among kids these days, and holding an armful of baguettes Anne had brought, she looked like an unfamiliar maid to anyone.

‘Let’s go, quickly! The Marquis’ estate people are busy welcoming the Crown Prince right now too!’

So Judith followed Anne and escaped outside the Marquis’ estate through the side gate where external merchants came and went.

She too followed where people were gathering, heard what Elizabeth was saying in the square, and headed to the main gate of the 【Grey Information Guild】 mixed among the people.

It felt like she was dreaming.

Judith thought she now understood the scheme Ekian had set up for her.

The fact that ‘Judith’s’ real name didn’t come up in their conversation, and that when Elizabeth was excitedly continuing to speak, Ekian said ‘stop’ to cut her off…

‘And keeping me inside the Marquis’ estate to prevent my real name from being revealed.’

He had schemed to minimize damage to Judith and prevent Elizabeth from ever entering her life again.

‘Did he leave the estate to plan all of this?’

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